The Arizona sentinel., 1887-04-02
LOCAL NOTES,

LUEAL ,NUlEO,
 Moonlight nights and glorious weather. Mi, J..W. Darlington visited Les Angeles this week.
 Hon. Tom Parish spent last Monday in Yuma.
 Hon. T.. E., Parish has purchased the Phoenix Gazette.
 Read H. nswsY. Silent whisperings. We hope to hear from H. often.
 Judge Levy returned Wednesday evening from his visit to Los Angeles.
 Mir. Hubbard, ex-Prison Commissioner, came down from Clip last Wednesday.
 Another large excursion passed through Sunday evening en route to California.
 Mir. Annis Ragel is having a handsome and substantial residence built out on Gila street.
 Hon. Chas. Baker has recently purchased tine span of mules for use on his Antelope valley farm.
 Walter MiIlar, the merchant prince of Norton's Landing, was in town . couple of days this week.
 Dr. Robberson, R. D. Chappell and Ed. Mayes came down by team from Antelope valley Wednesday.
 Capt. Polhemus is home again from an extended visit to New Mexico. northern Arizona and California.
 Hon. Cameron H. King, Territorial Com missioner of Immigration passed through Yuma Monday en route home.
 The Southern Pacific pay car made brief visit here last "Wednesday and it left the railroad boys all in gsod humor.
 Tommy Polhemus, son of Capt Polhemus, returned to school in San Francisco, Mon day. He will finish his studies there during the summer.
 The Board of Prison Commissioners meets here next Monday. They will consider bids for furnishing supplies to the prison for the ensuing year.
 The Colorado river steamer arrived from up-river prs Thursday. It brought down 200 tons of fine looking ore from the Red Clcu mine, this county.
 Mir. D. Nj. Fields Supervisor from Ante lope valley, came down Thursday and will remain over till after the meeting of the Board.
 Fl Hammond, Tax Collector of Los An geles county. Calif., skipped out leaving his bondsmen to settle with the county to the tune of over Sl6,O0 Too much gallan- try among the fair and frail 0nes of the An gelic city is supposed to have been the cause of his shortness and flight.
 Two freight cars were wrecked at Tortu- ga, thirty miles west of here, last Sunday. Section Foreman Greenleaf, Agent Waggy, and large force of men from here were out there till Tuesday clearing up the wreck. The cars were leaded with patent medicines for Southern California.
 Tucson Star:-There are vast tracts of lands now being reclaimed in California | and sold at extravagant prices which five years ago were considered of much less val ue, and as unreclaimable, as the vast tracts of mesa and valley lands now considered worthless through Arizona. The Arizona lands will soon be in demand.
 Gen. Heath, Indian Inspector. possessing the highest authority from the Indian De- pertinent, is paying a visit of inspection to the Fort Yuma Indian School and the Yuma Indians His opinion is that the Yuma school can be made success, provided, the management is given authority to compell the attendance of all the Indian children, and he thinks that this authority will soon be obtained
 From the Oceanside Star we learn that our old friend, W. II. Van Slyke, is having a grand seaside resort hotel built at that very charming young city by the sea. Ocean. Side, San Diego county, Cal. Ground was broken a few days ago and the building will be completed in time for grand open ing on July 4th next The main building is to be 40 by 100 feet, three and half stories high; the is to be 30 by 70 feet, three stories high. The hotel will contain sixty large, elegantly furnished rooms, en suite and single. In finish and furnishing throughout all it's appointments, this hotel will be second to none on the coast We wish our old friend Van abu: mt success in his enterprise and we know that if any one can make a success of it, he is the man. At Tacna, about noon on Thursday last Jimmie, the nine -year-old son of Frank Lee Dwyer Section Boss at Tacna, was bitten by a rattle snake. He was going into the chicken house, and as he stepped into the door the snake bit him near the ankle of the right foot. The fangs penetrated so deeply that he was compelled to kick the snake off with his other foot. He called his mother and told her he was bit when she immediately bound the leg above the wound and applied